You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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